Do you know of Duck Creek ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Duck Creek. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Duck Creek.

We found mention of Duck Creek as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Kent County, Delaware.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Duck Creek ...

We found nine communities that share the name Duck Creek.

Within Delaware, the name Duck Creek is unique.

Beyond Delaware, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Georgia
  - Chattooga County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Duck Creek [Chattooga County].
  - Walker County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Duck Creek [Walker County].
- Illinois
  - Mercer County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Duck Creek [Mercer County].
- Nevada
  - White Pine County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Duck Creek [White Pine County].
- North Carolina
  - Onslow County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Duck Creek [Onslow County].
- Ohio
  - Trumbull County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Duck Creek [Trumbull County].
- Tennessee
  - Hancock County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Duck Creek [Hancock County].
- Texas
  - Dallas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Duck Creek [Dallas County].
- Wisconsin
  - Brown County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Duck Creek [Brown County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Duck Creek ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Duck Creek:

U.S. Post Offices (1803)
Printed by order of the Post Master General

More Orphans in Kent County ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Kent County.

Footnotes ...

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If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Duck Creek could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.